Eileen Herlie: Actress who played Gertrude to Olivier's Hamlet then became queen of the daytime soaps
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
After a stage and film career of distinction on both sides of the Atlantic (including the screen role of Gertrude in Olivier's Hamlet), Eileen Herlie achieved the peak of her stardom in America as the redoubtably enduring dowager, Myrtle Fargate, heading the long-running daytime soap opera All My Children from 1976.
